Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
HERMANN HESSEYou know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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